Geek Out: What's Your Desktop Wallpaper?

Geek Out: What's Your Desktop Wallpaper?

I love seeing the offices of design mavens because they inevitably have some fabulous desktop wallpaper on the screen for the photo op, always something that complements the rest of the design of the office.

Case in point: Making it Lovely's Nicole shared her office recently, and my eye gravitated immediately to her Mac and the art on her desktop, the colors of which coordinate with the dominant pinks and reds of her office space.

I too enjoy a pretty, serene wallpaper as the setting for the madness that takes place on top of it; right now I can't seem to shake the Kaiku Marimekko pattern. Other times, I want to see a family pic stretched across my monitor, and sometimes I crave a simple, solid color to calm me. And I am not opposed to a really high-res photo of a flower (shoot, I am a girl).

But I'm curious about everyone else, since I think your computer's desktop wallpaper says a lot about you; What's yours?

i change mine every week. sometimes it's a new photo from a trip or time with my family and friends. sometimes it's nature. sometimes i go for the artistic flair. but they always express my personality.

I tend to have a lot of Doctor Who (with David Tennant, the 10th doctor) related wallpaper that rotates. Mostly, I like the wallpaper from the BBC Doctor Who site best - especially the comics-style ones.

I change it a lot, I do the DeviantART thing as well and do some "mechanical" fractal art that I use sometimes for my own machine, or I might use a funny photo.
Lately I have been into galactic/astronomical photos and nature shots, had some really pretty ones of the northern lights recently.

I made a wallpaper that has an older vintage look to it. On it has a picture of my dog who recently passed away with a quote and the day of his birth and death.
Before that, though, was a picture on the sun setting at the beach.

I just changed it to this time lapse lightning shot I found on Lifehacker. I like so many things, nature, cartoons, tv shows... I rotate it every month or so. My mom always has her favorite shot (she likes photographing wild birds) of the week.

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